I made the connection between the The Coffee House and Ragged Dick because he works in a fast paced city with lots of hustelin and bustelin. The picture gives off a cold and not a very friendly vibe much like the city Dick lives in. Going off that vibe of the city being a dark place to live; proves true in the scene where Dick asks the shopkeeper for change for a two dollor bill, he accuses Dick of it being fake. "You offered me a counterfiet bill." "I didn't know it," said Dick. (Alger, 1990, p.15)
The poem, Dawn I related to Ragged Dick because there is the one line in the poem, "Dawn for the rich, the artistic and the wise", implying everyone else doesn't have access to the dawn. Such as Dick since he is not rich and too busy to pay attention to Dawn since he needs to work. The line the dawn renews the terror, Dick waking up remembering he is a bootblack and has no respect. Next Wall
The poem, Dawn I related to Ragged Dick because there is the one line in the poem, "Dawn for the rich, the artistic and the wise", implying everyone else doesn't have access to the dawn. Such as Dick since he is not rich and too busy to pay attention to Dawn since he needs to work. The line the dawn renews the terror, Dick waking up remembering he is a bootblack and has no respect.
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